Welcome to the CUPS Server Configuration
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Welcome to the CUPS Server Configuration

This is the Welcome Screen for your server configuration dialogs. Clicking onto one of the items of the tree view on left side of the screen opens the appropriate part of the configuration settings.

Every setting has a default value. The defaults let CUPS normally work as a fully functional client. The clients listen on TCP/IP Port 631 for infos broadcast by CUPS servers on the LAN. This information let the clients print immediately after receiving them, without installing any driver or configuring any printer on the clients.

To configure a CUPS server (which is broadcasting its service to the LAN) you need to change settings from the defaults.

The dialog to configure the CUPS server: welcome screen.


The dialog to configure the CUPS server: welcome
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The dialog to configure the CUPS server: welcome screen


To select the default setting of any item just enable the checkbox on the right side of the screen. To set an item to a different value, disable the checkbox and then go on to do the setting you want on the left side of the screen.

The complete server configuration includes:

Each of these configuration items will be described in the following sections of the manual.

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